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What a ridiculous take!?
VW group make the best affordable EVs in Europe and have 50+% marketshare.
Why is such a blatantly moronic comment upvoted?
The reason they are in trouble is that it is expensive to have double the product line while also developing new EV models.
And of course increased competition from China, and US Tariffs that are also noted in the article.
What exactly is this "innovation" you complain that they aren't doing?
And no VW has NOT received huge subsidies from EU, where did you get that idea?
EV makers in USA have received subsidies in the form of tax credits. And in China they have through a diverse system of support for developing and building EV's and batteries.
In EU subsidies are required to NOT favor any single country, so reduced prices for an EV has counted exactly as much for a Tesla as for VW, and DESPITE that, VW has taken huge marketshare in EV.
I honestly get a little sad when I see such uninformed posts as the above. And that people for some reason seem to agree with it.
VW (and other EU car manufacturers) could and should have seen the EV market coming and instead they invested in covering up diesel emissions and lobbying the EU to postpone environmental policies. Dieselgate was a thing back in the day and VW was at the forefront.
I should have amended my first post by 'lobbying' instead of 'demanding subsides' though.
Because, sadly, this place has become a left wing version of places like r/conservative and anything that supports our worldview is sadly just upvoted. I’ve come to believe it’s nothing more than a circlejerk now as there is no diversity in opinions.
I don't disagree (even though I'm more progressive myself), but I think the general political sentiment on Lemmy is more anarchist and anti-capitalist than anything else. It's the same comments for basically any post that mentions or even hints at a company name.
seems like you're keeping the scales of political discourse balanced and fair.
you're doing gods work! keep it up!
/s (in the event you thought I was being sincere)
Any ideas that can't be challenged are just dogmas. And a mindset of "any opposition to any of my ideas for any reason means you're an enemy" is just tribalism.
It's just as stupid on the left as it is on the right. The world isn't black and white.
this reeks of "so much for the tolerant left".
Ideas are challenged, there's no dogmas here.
and yeah, if your position is "what's happening in the world today isn't a fascist coup lead by conservative christian nationalists", then you are my enemy.
just because I'm tolerant of others opinions doesn't mean I have to unilaterally respect all positions.
VW in North America has a huge reliability problem and the Canadian government was in a $13B subsidy deal in Ontario.
Canada offered more than $13 billion for VW plant: gov't source | Driving https://share.google/DEUZrvrthGygDkTLY
What?
According to Consumer Reports, Volkswagen generally ranks around average in reliability, often placing in the middle of the pack (16th out of 26 brands in recent evaluations). While some models like the Jetta have "Great" reliability, others such as the Taos and Atlas have faced, or are predicted to have, significant issues with electronics and powertrains.
iD4, 14 recalls since 2023. Ratings: Consumer Reports gave the 2023 model a low rating due to these issues. JD Power scored the 2023 model's quality/reliability at 54/100.
VW owners are the weirdest fanboys.
I have zero idea why there would be 14 recalls of ID4 in Canada, here we have had none that I know of. It is on the contrary considered among the most reliable together with BMW and Mercedes, slightly above Hyundai.
The only recall I can find on the ID.4 was due to a battery overheating issue, where it could catch fire, but the issue was merely a software fix.
Admittedly a serious enough issue, but an easy fix.
Such recalls are not uncommon, for instance Hyundai had it here with the Kona, but way more expensive for Hyundai since the entire battery needed to be replaced.
The ID.4 battery is in 26 modules if I remember correctly, and defect modules can be replaced separately if needed, making it one of the more serviceable batteries.
Tesla has had a LOT of recalls, but in reality most of them are not really recalls, because they were things that could be fixed with an over the air update.
Regarding VW reliability we have by yearly mandatory safety checks here in Denmark, and also Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.
In those safety checks, VW is in the absolute top, I linked the story on the enough musk spam sub, and get replies from the other 3 countries, that the picture was the exact same in those countries.
https://fdm.dk/nyheder/nyt-om-trafik-og-biler/tesla-skandalen-fortsaetter-naesten-hver-anden-tesla-model-y-dumper-til-syn
In the chart you can see Tesla failing 45% for model Y and 34% for model 3, and 2% for VW ID.4.
(Tesla is unheard of bad, which is the reason for the article.)
I have never seen anything regarding VW like what you claim is happening in Canada? And why don't you supply the source you are quoting?
I am not saying VW is good because they are better than Tesla, that just happens to be the main thing the article is about.
I'm saying VW is good because they top the chart as the car with the least failures at the mandatory safety checks, and it's in line with what I hear from reviewers and owners.
All 3 data points match up, and your story true or not, is very extreme outlier from the norm. And I don't think it's the weather, because then we should have heard similar stories from Norway, Finland and Sweden. So kind of a mystery if true, but maybe the article you omitted to link to has an explanation?